Crawl Project is the creation of Cape Town-based movement coach and Bodyworker, Richard-Dean Sumares.
 

Crawl Project is a container for an ever-evolving approach to physical, mental and spiritual wellness. At Crawl Project, movement understanding and awareness come before intensity and effort. Our philosophy is centred around creating an environment in which we can begin to explore and reconnect to an inherent embodied awareness and use that awareness in the pursuit of expressing our physicality as fully and freely as possible.

The fitness and wellness industry is saturated with exercise trends and fads, the new “it” sport accompanied by the appropriate fashion. Gimmick exercise tools, biohacks, and supplements.

At Crawl Project, we take a step back and look at the individual - YOU! What do you want? How does it feel when you move? How do you experience movement in your body? What do you enjoy? Where do you feel like you can succeed?

These are important questions for re-establishing an embodied relationship with yourself and moving into a deeper layer of understanding your physicality and how to express it.

We don’t believe the narratives you were taught to believe about yourself, things like “you have no rhythm” or “you’re uncoordinated.” This is all narrative. Narrative that becomes belief and belief which is then expressed in movement and reinforced. We aim to help you break limiting narratives and find your own truth, not because you were told as a child, but because you took the time to investigate and uncover the truth for yourself. 

 

You might believe you need to be stronger, or you need to lose weight, or you might believe you’re not flexible enough. These are all beliefs centred around a deeper core belief of somehow not being good enough. We don’t judge you for where you are, and we don’t hold you to some arbitrary standard of fitness perpetuated by dysfunctional media. Our measures of success and improvement are when you learn new skills, discover deeper states of awareness, overcome the tasks and goals you set for yourself, and regularly surpass your own expectations.

We don’t write arbitrary programs based on exercises that someone else says are good. We pick exercises, and ask you how they feel, then we make adjustments and continue the enquiry. We build programs with our clients, not just with them in mind, but actually with them. Your program needs to reflect you, not just what you want to achieve, but what you actually enjoy doing, and where you see the most benefit.

Most people come to us because they can’t go to regular trainers. People who have all but given up on exercise and fitness. Those who feel their body is betraying them or have completely given up trying to make exercise enjoyable. We get it. We see you. We’re an exercise company, and we hate exercise. We love movement though, and when you love movement enough, you can do it in a way that’s exercise without ever realising that’s what you’re doing.

If you work with us remotely, virtually or in-person, you will find your training will evolve with you, and it will be designed to meet you in a way that enriches the rest of your life.